Replication archive for Journal of Economic History article "Technology and the Era of the Mass Army"
By Massimiliano Onorato, Ken Scheve, David Stasavage
November 2013 

FILES
README.txt					This file
OSS_mobil_repl_data.dta				Stata dataset for main analyses in the article for great power states.
OSS_mobil_repl_data_lrgesample.dta		Stata dataset for Table 4 analysis in the article for large sample of 60 countries.
OSS_mobil_replication.do			Stata do file that replicates all the analyses presented and discussed in the article and online appendix including robustness tests.
OSS_mobil_replication.log			Stata log file created by OSS_mobil_replication.do	
Figure1.gph					Figure 1 in Stata format created by OSS_mobil_replication.do
FigureA1.gph and FigureA2.gph			Figure A-1 and Figure A-2 in Stata format created by OSS_mobil_replication.do (Stata graphs mobpanel1-mobpanel13 are inputs to these graphs)
Mobilization_JEH_final.pdf			PDF file of article to be added to archive upon publication in 2014
Mobilization_Appendix_Nov_2013.pdf		PDF file for Online Appendix

VARIABLE IDENTIFICATION

The definition and sources of the variables is presented in the article and online appendix. The description below briefly identifies each variable appearing in 
the two datasets.

OSS_mobil_repl_data.dta

countryno       "Country id number"
country         "Country name"                        
year            "Year"      
mobil           "Troops under the command of the national government divided by total population"      
military1       "Troops under the command of the national government, in thousands"     
waryear         "Dummy equal to 1 for years of war, 0 otherwise"      
gt1789          "Dummy equal to 1 from 1789 onwards, 0 otherwise"      
gt1859          "Dummy equal to 1 from 1859 onwards, 0 otherwise"      
gt1970          "Dummy equal to 1 from 1970 onwards, 0 otherwise"      
gt1957          "Dummy equal to 1 from 1957 onwards, 0 otherwise"      
RRkmip1         "Length of railroad track available to the public in each country, in millions of kilometers"      
firstcruise_lib "Dummy equal to 1 for each year after a country acquires a cruise missile, 0 before the acquisition"
popul1          "Total population, in thousands"      
popul2          "Total population, in billions" 
gdppcip         "GDP per capita in 1990 international G-K dollars"     
gdppcip2        "GDP per capita in thousands of 1990 international G-K dollars"     
literacy_qrt    "Quartile of the adult population which can read. Coded from 1 to 4"   
democracy       "Dummy equal to 1 if the legislature is elected in free multi-party elections, if the executive is directly or indirectly elected in popular elections and is responsable either directly to voters or to a legislature elected accodring to the first condition, and if at least 50% of adult males have the right to vote"    
austriahungar~d "Austria-Hungary time trend"
chinatrend      "China time trend"
francetrend     "France time trend"
italytrend      "Italy time trend"
japantrend      "Japan time trend"
netherlandstr~d "Netherlands time trend"
germanytrend    "Prussia\Germany time trend"
russiatrend     "Russia\Soviet Union time trend"
spaintrend      "Spain time trend"
swedentrend     "Sweden time trend"
usatrend        "USA time trend"
uktrend         "UK time trend"
ottotrend       "Ottoman Empire time trend"
RRkmip_area     "Railroad track kilometers divided by a country's land area"
taxes           "Dummy equal to 1 if a state has a representative assembly with the authority to consent to or refuse new taxation, 0 otherwise"
spending        "Dummy equal to 1 if a state has a representative assembly with the authority to exert control over expenditure decisions, 0 otherwise"
lnmilitary1     "Logarithm of the variable military1"
telegramip      "Yearly number of telegrams"
ship_steammot~p "Number of steam and motor ships" 
samplesel       "Dummy equal to 1 for cases with high numbers of foreigner troops, 0 otherwise"
census          "Dummy equal to 1 if a state had carried out a national census, 0 otherwise"
nuclearcap      "Dummy equal to 1 starting from the year of acquisition of nuclear weapons, 0 otherwise" 
estwarheads     "Estimated count of nuclear warheads"
litxRR          "Interaction term between literacy_qrt and RRkmip1"
demxRR          "Interaction term between democracy and RRkmip1"
ngramnation2    "Relative frequency of the use of the word "nation" as from Google Ngrams data"
neighmil        "Troops of neighboring countries" 
neighmobil      "Military mobilization of neighboring countries"
conscription    "Dummy equal to 1 if a state employs conscription of any form, 0 otherwise"
universal       "Dummy e qual to 1 in cases where there is universal conscription, 0 if there is either non-universal conscription or recruitment without conscription"

OSS_mobil_repl_data_lrgesample.dta

milper          "Troops under the command of the national government, in thousands" COW Military Personnel
mobilization    "Troops under the command of the national government divided by total population" COW Military Personnel/COW Total Population
raillineip      "Length of railroad track available to the public in each country, in millions of kilometers" CHAT interpolated
pctivliteracyip "Percent literate 15 years and older" CHAT interpolated
tpop            "Total population, in thousands" COW Total Population
rgdppcip        "Scaled level of real GDP/Cow Total Population" CHAT interpolated
democracy       "Dummy equal to 1 if the legislature is elected in free multi-party elections, if the executive is directly or indirectly elected in popular elections and is responsable either directly to voters or to a legislature elected accodring to the first condition, and if at least 50% of adult males have the right to vote"
year            "Year"
waryear         "Dummy equal to 1 for years of war, 0 otherwise"
uniqueccode     "Country id number, COW Country Codes"
cd1-cd100       "Country specific time trend" 

